Example sentences of "that [pron] may have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can see that I may have a little difficulty explaining this first part of my story , especially to anyone not acquainted with the often bizarre rituals of academic life . |
| 2 | Do you consider that I may have committed a disciplinary offence ? |
| 3 | I am all too ready to admit that I may have misunderstood what I have read in modern French theory ; the problem is in getting any minimal intellectual purchase on it at all . |
| 4 | Or was it just another side of his character I had not seen before , but that I may have suspected was always there ? |
| 5 | But a mathematician should be taught to try to take me with him , so that I may have some appreciation of what he is doing , and why he enjoys doing it . |
| 6 | I would be more than thankful and hopeful that I may have helped him in return for the inspiration he has given me . |
| 7 | Remember your moral crime : that you have now lied twice about why I had written to you in the first place ( Letters report , 5 December ) , and you have lied on purpose and you have done so with manifest contempt and disregard for any say or rights that I may have against your sick sense of ‘ editorship ’ . |
| 8 | Herbert 's daily life at Bemerton can be envisaged from his book The Country Parson ( later published as The Priest to the Temple ) , which he wrote , as he explained , ‘ that I may have a mark to aim at ’ . |
| 9 | I hope that I may have encouraged some of my readers to use the garter carriage and next month I will be exploring stitch patterns and ways of combining these into interesting garments . |
| 10 | But having read them , it is first of all possible that I may have some queries on them . |
| 11 | And soon , when I 'm old enough — he has said that I may have his camera , and take pictures for myself . |
| 12 | Thus I might say to someone " Let's go and find out which is the oldest tree in the park " , without fearing that I may have said something unintelligible just because neither of us is certain what the outcome of our search will be . |
| 13 | I have come to the conclusion that I may have to stick to one particular make for the right size . |
| 14 | " I was glad to have a second chance to be leader to correct some of the insensitivities that I may have had , because of my own personal drive , wanting to get things done . |
| 15 | ‘ No , the only thing I regret is that I may have rushed you into something you 're already beginning to repent . |
| 16 | Remarks made by the Senior Management Team about the value of these ‘ minutes ’ in the absence of their own , points to the possibility that I may have slightly biased the proceedings by asserting my interpretation of events . |
| 17 | it would have been a matter that I may have raised at our board meeting , again , again , that would have been passed on |
| 18 | ‘ I will buy it , so that I may have you to myself . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Now that you point it out , I see that I may have acted rashly . ’ |
| 20 | It is possible that someone may have half pulled the jettison knob . |
| 21 | ’ … beyond them , ’ she went on imperturbably , ’ I can speculate that someone may have overlooked the Quarley 's university , when removing from all data banks material akin to that gained from the Ichaelan agent . ’ |
| 22 | personally , I 'd have thought that anyone who heard a gunshot round our manor would have just moved away from the window and kept his head down , but I 've got to accept that someone may have phoned . |
| 23 | She is looking for critical views against which to pitch her own ; it seems that she may have chosen the wrong sort of topic , since on a holiday in Italy she had been stunned by the newly renovated Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in Rome , and although there were plenty of books about it , many of them went into extravagant detail . |
| 24 | I felt that she may have either directly or indirectly encouraged him to make this decision for several reasons : she was suffering ; she knew that he was n't going to leave the hospital and she accepted that ; and she did n't like seeing him talk himself into more suffering for him and for her ; and I do n't think there 's any question that in some sense she must have gotten this across to him that he ought to give up much more than anyone else . |
| 25 | Mrs Gunner 's ex-husband was preparing to fly to Faro last night clinging to hopes that she may have missed the flight . |
| 26 | ‘ I just wanted to find her , I felt so bad that she may have gone missing because of me . ’ |
| 27 | I have been told by an old Rochdale colleague of hers that she may have married a doctor and that he thinks she was left a cottage in Tonypandy some time in the mid to late 1960s . |
| 28 | What reason could we produce to allow that she may have the capacity to act autonomously while denying her the capacity-to-act-autonomously ? |
| 29 | But they are not random errors : they grow out of her particular approach to spelling , and suggest that she may have trouble in the future because of a weak visual memory and her attempts to compensate for this are reckless and haphazard . |
| 30 | I can not ignore even the slightest chance that she may have survived . |